Means for removing sealing-caps from vessels.



I W/TNESSES J. A. HICKS.

MEANS FOR REMOVING SEALING'GAPS FROM VESSBLS.

APPLICATION PIL'BD FEB. s. 1906.

PATENTED NOV. 13, 1906.

PATENT OFFICE.

UNITED STATES JOHN AUGUSTUS HICKS, OF SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO M. HICKS, OF SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY.

JAMES I MEANS FOR REMOVING SEALING-CAPS FROM VESSELS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 13,1906.

Application filed February 3, 1906. Serial No. 299,244.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN AUGUSTUS HIoKs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Summit, Union county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Means for RemovingSealing- Caps from Vessels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means for removing'sealing-caps from vessels; and it consists in certain elements, in combination, fully set forth in the following specification and claimed at the end thereof.

In order that those skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may understand, construct, and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming part there of, in Which Figure 1 is a front elevation and part longi tudinal central section of my invention applied to a sealing-ca p secured to a vessel over its mouth. Fig. 2 is a partial side elevation and part central longitudinal section of my invention on a vessel having a bead. Fig. 3 is a top view in part and art cross-section of Fig. 2 beneath the meta of the top surface and above the inclosed wafer and showing a part of the removing means lying above the wafer D in the ca Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section 0 -a cap and flange and a removing means F in side view, F in this figure being asnari'ow strip instead of a wire,

as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of Fig. 4 and shows a collar on the top of the vessel-neck straight-sided, not a bead, as in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 6 is a vessel in front elevation, showing no bead and no collar and having my invention applied to it.

Fig. 7 shows in front elevation a milk-j ar provided with my invention.

A is the vessel-neck. B is the usual bead at its top in Figs. 1 and 2 and a rim or collar in Figs. 4 and 5.

0 is a sealing-cap secured over the vesselmouth and having a wafer D in it, as is usual.- F is a wire in Figs. 1, 2, 6, and 7, secured in the cap C over the wafer D and extending downward below the flange of the cap, ending in a loo E, by which it may be grasped to remove t e cap.

In Figs. 4 and 5 F is a thin narrow strip of metal. g The cap provided with Wafer and wire or metal strip F is secured over the vessel 5 5 mouth in the. manner set out in Patent No. 783,038, dated February21, 1905,theflange of the cap being smaller than the bead or collar upon the vessel-neck includingthe wire or strip F, over which the flange is stretched.

drawing upward the loop E and liftingthe cap ofl, or when F is a wire and the cap is.

vessel has a collar or straight-sided band upon it, and .a cap with a flange stretched without breaking the vessel-neck except by a longitudinal pull and that a very severe one. A cap-removed in the ordinary way by lifting one side and turning the cap sidewise prevents the turning of the cap without unduly stretching the cap-flange and causes. great annoyance. .By my invention caps are easily removed no matter what depth of flange and shape of bead or collar it has and even when the vessel has no collar.

Having now fully described my invention and the manner in which I have embodied it, What I claim as new and as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a means for removing sealing-caps from vessels, the combination consisting of sealing-cap provided with a pendent flange which grlps the vessel to secure it thereto, compressible sealing means located beneath the to surface of said cap, a removing means partia ly inclosed within the sealing-cap and partially without the sealing-cap, the said removing means within the cap being im- 5 6c The removal of the'cap is accomplished by overv this band cannot be removed readily pinches the straight sides of the collar and closely compressed between the said flange of name to this specification, the presence of the said cap and the bead upon the vesseltwo subscribing Witnesses,this 2d day of Febneek, whereby when the cap is secured on a o ruary 1906. vessel the said cap is removed therefrom by JOHN AUGUSTUS HICKS.

5 drawing upon the end of the removing means Witnesses:

outside of the cap. A JAMES M. HIoKs, In testimony whereof I have signed my C. H. CARLIN. 

